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Software engineering is the backbone of Hacker News. This topic covers programming languages, frameworks, databases, developer tooling, and the craft of building reliable systems at scale.

From language design debates to database internals and CI/CD practices, these stories reflect what working engineers care about. Birbla keeps a running archive so you can revisit discussions that aged well.

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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

platform.claude.com · 36 points · 172 comments

AlloyDB's new agentic database architecture

cloud.google.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

inkandswitch.com · 3 points · 37 comments

An OpenAI-compatible, model-agnostic agent API

rebyte.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft

microsoft.github.io · 4 points · 8 comments

OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

swarmcha.se · 5 points · 83 comments

What do you do now as a software engineer?

4 points · 7 comments

New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation Feature

wsj.com · 4 points · 0 comments

CaughtShipping – curfew app for developers, enforced by a public wall

caughtshipping.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Sixb, a TypeScript ontology framework for modeling your domain

docs.sixb.ai · 2 points · 1 comments

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

righto.com · 6 points · 11 comments

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

github.blog · 12 points · 69 comments

CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled

lemonde.fr · 40 points · 165 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

discourse.haskell.org · 17 points · 332 comments

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

twitter.com · 3 points · 2 comments

FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents

reuters.com · 12 points · 21 comments

Accelerated Out of Core Shuffling

quasiben.github.io · 7 points · 0 comments

The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers

felipec.wordpress.com · 7 points · 14 comments

Time Measurement in Game Programming

asawicki.info · 6 points · 0 comments

LM Studio Bionic with Python?

2 points · 1 comments

Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

cyberscoop.com · 38 points · 100 comments

Aslmp, an async Python SLMP client for Mitsubishi MELSEC PLCs

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Paper-docx – agent-native Python-docx fork with 78% fewer DOCX failures

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters

nytimes.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system

choreoglyphs.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Anyone else's OpenAI and Claude API keys mysteriously leaked last night?

2 points · 1 comments

OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API

5 points · 48 comments

Plan Mode Is Dead

aymannadeem.com · 4 points · 495 comments

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

dashbit.co · 3 points · 97 comments

China's new travel rules unsettle tech giants and talent

dw.com · 8 points · 3 comments